Girls' name · since 2014

Greylynn

124 babies named Greylynn in U.S. Social Security records since 2014, with the highest year being 2017. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.

#24,737 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#9,366 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
124
born since 2014
2020s
peak decade

Yes -- Greylynn is the #9366 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 124 recorded since 2014.

Social Security Administration records show Greylynn recorded 124 times among girls since 2014, holding rank #9366 nationally today, ahead of 46% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2014 to 2025.

  • #24,737 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #9,366 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 124 born since 2014
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Greylynn ranks #24,737 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,366 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 124 born since 2014, peaking in the 2020s.

#24,737 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#9,366 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
124
born since 2014
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%45.8%
Greylynn vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Greylynn's 124 recorded births place it above 65.72% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Greylynn compares

124 28th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Greylynn's all-time total is 67% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Greylynn Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 124 376 567,345
Peak-year births 16 21 19,840

Greylynn's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Divide Greylynn's SSA record in two at 2020 and the more recent half accounts for 59% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 41%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2014, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2017 peak of 16, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.

Greylynn popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2017)
16
Annual births at peak, across 12 years of records
05101520 20142016201720182019202020212022202320242025 11

Greylynn by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (73 births, 59% of the file).

2020s was Greylynn's strongest decade.

73 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 59% of all-time use.

Greylynn births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 73 births (59% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Greylynn?
Greylynn has been given to 124 babies in the U.S. since 2014, according to SSA data. Its archive ordinal is #24,737 of 72,339 among girls' names (total births, highest first). Among girls in 2025, it is #9,366 of 17,297. 16 babies were born in 2017, its single highest year.
Where does Greylynn sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Greylynn ranks #24,737 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,366 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Greylynn most popular?
Greylynn was most popular in the 2020s decade with 73 total births. The single peak year was 2017.
How long has the name Greylynn been used?
Greylynn has been recorded in Social Security data since 2014, spanning 12 years of data through 2025.
What names are similar to Greylynn?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Gretchen, Greta, Grecia, Gretta, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Greylynn: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2014–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Greylynn draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.